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1 | Malkavian Twilight 00:39
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| 2 | A Mad Blood Scenario 04:23
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| 3 | The Draining 05:26
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| 4 | Um Sonho Psycodelico 04:01
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| 5 | Sleeping Princess Of The Arges 06:32
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| 6 | Her Northern Majesty 05:51
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| 7 | Blackeyes 07:21
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| 8 | The Emerald Tablet 07:14
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| 9 | Willothewisp 07:22
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| 10 | Neptune 02:37
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| 11 | 5 04:10
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| 12 | Hecate, My Love And Lust 06:04
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| 13 | Vampirize Natasha 02:34
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| 14 | Black Funeral (Mercyful Fate cover) 02:50
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| | Total playing time 01:07:04 |
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Aphazel - guitars, bass, keyboards
Kaiaphas - vocals, drums, percussion
Jesus Christ! - guitars, bass, keyboards, cello, piano
Erichte - vocals |
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Recorded, mixed and mastered in Cue Recording Studios, Falls Church, Virginia during September 1997.
Produced by Aphazel.
Engineered by Doug Johnston.
European version of this CD is a digipack.
Japanese version has a bonus track: "Morte Al Potere" (05:09), a cover song of the Italian progressive rock band Antonius Rex. This track is also available on the Metal Blade Records' compilation "Deathmeister Volume 1", released in 1998. |
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| 1. Malkavian Twilight
[Instrumental]
2. A Mad Blood Scenario
Gaze into my broken eyes, where laughter and sorrow collide. Scattered are
the pieces which time forgot. See the cracked mirror walls, emerald mist
flowing down the halls. Shattered pieces of a forgotten puzzle. Feel the
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Не знаю почему до сих пор никто не написал рецензию на лучший альбом этой группы. Сейчас исправлю эту несправедливость. Альбом просто великолепен, как в плане музыки, так и текстов. И самое главное, в нём есть песня уникальная в своём роде. В блэке больше не будет такой абсолютно сумасшедшей песни с готическими текстами. Название у неё тоже супер: Will-o`-the-wisp. Но остальные треки также на уровне, но вторая половина альбома ощутимо лучше. Слушать всем! |
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Да уж... Действительно странно - творение культовое, а рецензий почти нет. Работа, на мой взгляд, несколько затянута, и не так разнообразна как хотелось бы, но её вытягивают мощные "Mad Blood Scenario", "Her Nothern Majesty", пара-тройка переходов в других темах по ровному ходу движения альбома, и композиция, на которой стоит остановиться особо, ибо таких в симфо-блэке мало. "Willothewisp" смешала в себе смех блаженного, спокойствие обречённого и плач утратившего, а болезненно-волнующий клип на этот шедевр создаёт ощущение, что другого видео к "Willothewisp" просто не могло быть снято. Вокал Кайафаса здесь произвёл особое впечатление - я не поверил, что он американец, и мне чертовски жаль, что пути его и Ancient разошлись. |
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Альбом, мягко сказать, переломный в творчестве группы, так как последующие гораздо лучше. Подобную скуку около 60 минут вынести очень тяжко, однако, есть там тема, достойная внимания – «The Draining». Эта композиция (в отличие от остальных) записана на данном альбоме, словно другими людьми, чётко, с приличной скоростью, в середине имеет замечательный звуковой фрагмент, будто из готического фильма ужасов, грамотно выведенный в продолжение... Хорошо, что ребята продолжили в таком же ключе: «Proxima Centauri» 2001 весь такой бодрый.
P.S. К слову о «культовости» – это, наверное, шутка... На ранние их темы без улыбки смотреть невозможно... Особенно клипы улыбают... |
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crimson velvet pillow. Relax as I tell you a tale when lunacy reigned and
madness prevailed. Long nailed fingers run through silken hair. Our poison
tongues now dance, wet with entrancing liquors. We drown in burning
ecstasy, but you seek something more than this. Tonight another looking
glass will crack. My promises too broken, did you believe what I've spoken?
The echoes shall splinter your mind like they did mine. Prepare my darling,
for the nocturnal wedding.ble tomb. Lay your head upon the crimson velvet
pillow. Relax as I tell you a tale when lunacy reigned and madness
prevailed. Long nailed fingers run through silken hair. Our poison tongues
now dance, wet with entrancing liquors. We drown in burning ecstasy, but
you seek something more than this. Tonight another looking glass will
crack. My promises too broken, did you believe what I've spoken? The echoes
shall splinter your mind like they did mine. Prepare my darling, for the
nocturnal wedding.
[Solo - Aphazel]
Gaze into my broken eyes where a deranged love rises, to greet your
lovelorn flesh. Hallucinating like undead shamans, You feel the rapturous
sting of first death and collapse into lonely arms. Look now with night
piercing eyes, not quite broken, but time shall remedy. Lick my
blood-soaked lips once more, taste the stain of wondrous insanity. The
constant shrieking in your mind drives you crazy. Yes, my darling, I can
hear it too. The answers you seek lie in the reflection. Be still, allow
the images to caress you, here everything is upside down. Cackling like
undead hyenas, you feel the boggling slap of dementia and collapse into
delighted arms.st death and collapse into lonely arms. Look now with night
piercing eyes, not quite broken, but time shall remedy. Lick my
blood-soaked lips once more, taste the stain of wondrous insanity. The
constant shrieking in your mind drives you crazy. Yes, my darling, I can
hear it too. The answers you seek lie in the reflection. Be still, allow
the images to caress you, here everything is upside down. Cackling like
undead hyenas, you feel the boggling slap of dementia and collapse into
delighted arms.
My little pet, how foolish you've become. Yesterday's sweet dedications of
love are part of an infantile dream fading fast. You raise your vampyrie
eyes to consume my heart. But since it's been viciously torn apart, you
see, a time will fortunately come when you realize our kind cannot stomach
'togetherness', for love is but an arduous game mortals play. So from this
day you are mine, to be my immortal concubine.
3. The Draining
[Solo - Aphazel]
How deep is your sleep? That I may not interrupt your turbulent dreams?
Disrupting the sanity of slumber, the vile and wretched creature from the
astral realm stands right before you. Purple mist slips through window
chovering above your miserable shape. "What turmoil spoils my evening
bliss?" A turmoil savor permeates your nostrils.
fright upon awakening your frigid cast paralyzed and spellbound.
Fiery eyes piercing through your alarmed soul, as ethereal tentacles
penetrate the energy shield. It's the Draining, It's the draining,
draining, drainingжж..
How does it feel to be drained so feverishly? Fear carries a rather
exquisite taste. I only take as much to leave you terrified. My victims
shall become my bounded disciples.
[Solo -Aphazel]
"As the satiated vapor disappears from sight, know that I may come again
some other dreary night."
4. Um Sonho Psycodelico
From the north, from the south, and from the east and from the west, we
invoke our ancient gods and goddesses. Bless our conjuration, for we have
gathered from lands afar. Enhance our perception, through these enchanted
plants bizarre. Let us see the ganja kingdoms. Let us dive into hash
clouds. Use our (psychedelically) tainted tongues to caress Shiva's
writhing marbled body.
In this sacred desert ground, our tribe surrounded by purple shroud.
Ram-skinned drums stirring ghosts. The time has come to welcome our host.
Deeply breathe the magickal incense, of grounded opium and frankincense.
Let the smoke take you to fluorescent fields, where magnificent creatures
lay down their shields.
An orgasmic celebration of flesh ensues. Our eyes luster with desires' hue.
Copulation grins upon my face, as we cum all over this fuckin' place.
In the sky the dragon flies. The fabled reptile with ruby eyes has come to
take us for a ride across the phantasmagoric astral sky.
Mystical secrets from the past, answers for questions from the centuries
asked. Reach out to touch the universe, embrace the beauty beyond this
earth.
And we rode the cosmic snake past the gates of mortality, among the gods
and goddesses, shall we spend eternity.
5. Sleeping Princess Of The Arges
Tonight the moon is full in the land beyond the forest. The howling of
Wallachian wolves, a serenade to the dreariest soul.
I'm alone, within the confines of my barren home bereaved, left behind,
grieving for the one, my ashen bride.
A host of ravens hover from majestic winter mountains. Into my ears they
whisper, a sullen song of melancholy.
Five hundred years have passed since the flowers blossomed. Green meadows
now benighted and shadows embrace the frozen sun
I'm alone
"I remember the glorious storms, the wrath of the heavens upon the shores.
The erotic winds and their symphonies, resounding above the elegant trees.
I remember the nights spent in thine arms, while making dark love with
bestial charm. A setting provided with incessant rain, sipping the blood
from each others veins."
As mist, I travel the dismal skies, feeding, my ravenous appetite.
Dreaming, of candles and gleaming stars. Bleeding, from my lovelorn scars.
Once I was a blissful delighted man, residing over a splendid land. Now a
beast of nocturnal guise, bent to cease my immortal life.
"I am longing to touch thee, my love, to bake in the warmth of the skies
above. Marveled by landscapes so picturesque with the nestled brow on my
nurturing breast. I yearn to taste the sweet tongue of thy kiss, to dance
in the halls of the fiery abyss. Vanquish thy curse and come set me free,
awake me, my darling, from my tortured sleep."
As mist, I travel the dismal skies, feeding, my ravenous appetite.
Dreaming, of candles and gleaming stars. Bleeding, from my lovelorn scars.
Once I was a blissful delighted man, residing over a splendid land. Now a
beast of nocturnal guise, bent to cease my immortal life.
"Through ethereal dreams I convoke to thee like a gentle breeze upon a
reposing sea. Let my waves wash away thy grief, and convey thy shadowless
soul back to me."
I've renounced the ways of christ. I've spat on his throne and scoffed at
his lies. I'll install a new kingdom to which there will be everlasting
indulgence for you and me.
Soon we shall stroll through the spellbinding mark. My time has come to
relinquish this earth, with cascading tears of horizons unseen, I'll be
reunited with my pallid queen.
"Through ethereal dreams
Together we'll drink to our undying love. Absinthe shall lift us on the
wings of a dove, and transport us to places beyond our dreams, where
graceful nymphs dominate the scene.
And so I forsake my ancient abode. My calamitous fable of woe unfolds with
valor, I face the sweltering sun. In thy pale reflection of death, we are
alone
[Solo: Jesus Christ!]
6. Her Northern Majesty
Her majesty is crying tears of ice cold rain.
I see my brazen brothers come to claim their hill and plane, They take my
hand and guide me to the walls of Stortinget.
Angered by the weak and ostentatious actions of leaders of our land.
Spitting on the vainglorious proclaimers of freedom to all that be as they
hold a worldwide banner shouting come and follow me.
Norway is the star to be followed. Her symmetry plain to see. We shall not
let her father into the popular amorphous sea, and with these words spoken
the end befell the lies.
And the promises have awoken the Northern son's vengeful eyes. I see the
promises begging on their knees in guilt and shame. So swiftly were they
silenced and once again the Vikings reign!
Now we shall live as one, brothers and sisters of pride. As we watch our
enemies sail away forgotten with the tide.
Her majesty shall raise her head, a beautiful example to all. The sons of
North have Norway in hand and never shall she fall!
[Solo - Aphazel]
7. Blackeyes
A beginning brings forth questions.
Answered are these with lie upon web.
Shiver, does the child draped in it's disgrace.
The web grows like a poisonous vine fed by storybook filth, tangling it's
hypocritical mass around the throat of human instinct like a
self-perpetuating noose.
The one dangling in rage, refusing to choke, gains a dagger to sever all
ties to the vine of self-deceit. Consuming the melody of shrieking
horrorжthe blade penetrates as he becomes in harmony with his action. The
constant twilight of the forbidden is unveiled, revealing darkness to be
ravished forever by the intellect of BLACKEYES.
Disgusted by the pathetic pleading swollen holes of the "holy"
BLACKEYES
Prepared to protect any path he hath chosen.
BLACKEYES
Contempt for all benevolent spinners now clinging to the vine.
FEELING, SEEING, KNOWING, BEINGж
Lift your sword, slice the vine. Feast on pleasure, swim in life's wine.
Take your vengeance now and rise, torment those who fear BLACKEYES
All who waste life on bended knees are begging for death to take them, so
be it go humbly to your god in white. Look to my Blackeyes for a reflection
of your fright.
Run christian soldier, for our army approaches!
Smile christian daughters for the snapshot of your annihilation.
Know this slaves of christ. Our pulse quickens with the thought of your
death. Prey pawns on your knees! Prey to the god you fear to protect you!
Blackeyes bring forth hell inside catacombs of a web now sighing with the
weight of helo's drenched in blood of a million spinners.
Join us little children, or be sent to your empty promise land in tears of
RED
your sword, slice the vine. Feast on pleasure, drink life's wine. Take
your vengeance now and rise, torment those who fear BLACKEYES.
What be is FREE
Join us little children before it's to late, and we shall send you in tears
of red straight to heaven's gate.
8. The Emerald Tablet
Innocent games of unwritten spells as a child, animals are companions and
mentors, and the moon my night side mother.
No one understood them, few comprehend nowж
She awoke with eyes of fire to a world demented by spinners feeling,
smelling, tasting all before her made her live. Growing, walking, talking,
power taking form, ignoring all beneath her refusing to conform.
"My innocence was a time of feeling pleasure in the rain. I learned from
all creatures of instinct the magic within joy and pain."
Now she swims to the watery depths of darkness unreachable by most. Forever
mocked by an angry mob like parasites on a new host, for the one who
strives to reveal all aspects of life is hated, hunted, by those who fear
themselves.
"By the time I was one with the moon and tide, I was detested for not
having banished my pride. Being strong in my age of circle and seas I raged
against all on bended knees!"
Her fall is one of beauty revealing colors undistributed by a storming sky.
With skill and patience learnt from Crane she drips blood of her veins to
bind what she claims, power beyond wisdom, faces without names.
"My chance for smoke and mystery so close to earth am I. My time is matched
by wisdom and I am not afraid to die."
The crisp clean winds of the old man have come for her at last. He loves
her with his mighty heart and plans to take her fast.
Most run from old man winter for fear of growing cold. So set in the
reality that they have bought and sold, not this grand lady she flies away
with a smile. You can hear her singing beyond a year and past a mile.
"My time has filled the circle. The Sun's inside the moon. My essence is
free to breath, as my body decays in a tomb."
Spring, fire. Summer, water. Autumn, Earth. Winter, Air. Daughter, killer.
Mother, blood. Wolf, salmon, deer, fox. Pauper's princess. Christ's desire,
Live, Evil!
HAIL WHOLE WOMAN!!!!!!
HAIL SATANIC WITCH!!!!!!
9. Willothewisp
[Her] Nights spent succumbing to the brilliance of Blackeyes, feeling the
warm embrace of your hand, memories like salt on a wound, dominate my new
found spirit land.
Seeking wisdom in the darkness hovering helplessly around our pain crying
with absence of real tears, like a child born in vein.
I can no longer bear to watch you cradling my form. Wrenching out bloody
drops of desperation's futile storm. Welcome to the Willothewisp my love.
Deaths arduous game. Mocking times insanity foreshadowing years of reign.
[Male] Oh my perfect princess, hard and cold as stone. I shall trace your
lips with crimson. I'll protect you; they can't have you to bury, to leave
me. Slay all who dare touch my pretty doll, it will be bloody paradise, a
misanthropes ball.
[Female] I hear you and beseech you, find a way to understand. Kill them
for my body and be left with grains of sand. Do not waste your life in
vain, protecting that which feels happiness nor pain.
Willothewisp my love, is forever now what be. Willothewisp my darkened
darling can not be taken away from thee.
[Male] I feel your essence all around me, and see you dead on our floor.
Realize it would kill me to see you dragged out like a rotting whore. The
dead are not theirs to take, fuck their reality. I seek revenge. Fuck their
stupidity, your death will be avenged.
My princess is not their dead slave, to tear apart and fit inside a holy
lonesome grave.
[Female] Ahh! You torment me with endless worry. A doll is what is left of
me, to kill it, insanity! Wake up live your life. Do not waste it in my
name.
[Male]
No! Why? Your body comforts me. Please understand. It is a Willothewisp my
love, but at least I would have command.
Help! Help! Ahh! I can not take this, my heart was black to all but you,
and now you're dead. I need you in any form. I want you. Separation is what
permeates the fear of death. Ahh! Ahh! Come back!
[Female] My essence is always with you. Hovering over you and what was I of
my love and perfect self, I never meant to die. It's all right, do as you
wish. I want my body to be with you.
[Male] I see them coming, my pulse quickens, my long blade smiles. Get away
from her! Bastards, pawns! Die, you are worth nothing, Die!!
They are dead as well, now bags of worthless flesh. How dare they try and
take you, Ha! Ha! Ha! We are free together.
[Female] You shiver like a broken child before me, clutching my cold hand
wet with tears, you kiss my hand and lips, and I feel nothing.
[Male] A presence looms about me, whispering like morning dew. My perfect
death doll princess, I stay here forever with you.
[Female] He has won my body, but now he is insane. I reach out to dry his
tears, only to find I am like wind to rain.
[Both] Willothewisp is torture, deaths arguous game.
Willothewisp is hidden boundaries, foreshadowing years of pain.
10. Neptune
[Instrumental]
11. 5
[Instrumental]
12. Hecate, My Love And Lust
Oh, thou enlightened lover, come roll with me. Oh my fiercest lover, come
roll with me.
All my life I've searched for thee. The wonders you hold are pure ecstasy.
The greatest pleasures you give are most divine. I shall love you 'til the
end of time.
The sensations I feel when you touch me burn stronger than that of the ones
before thee. The volcanic shivers you give when we fuck, reminds me that
mandane females do suck.
Through you, I have found the philosopher's stone. In you my penumbral
heart has found a home. And as you whisper sweet wisdoms into my ears, the
power of cunnilingus brings you to tears.
I smell your hair, red as the brightest rose. Intorication sets in and my
desire grows. We dance until the moon bids farewell. Never shall we sleep
into the fires of hell.
I'll build you a throne in the heart of my mind, where everlasting love ye
always shall find.
Thy temple adorned with fidelity, where I'll worship thy essence eternally.
Oh thou enlightened lover, Come roll with me. Oh my fiercest lover, come
roll with me. Oh my denoted lover, come roll with me. Oh my faithful lover,
come roll with me.
[Solo : Aphazel]
Thou art the answer to all my dreams. Thou art the bringer of orgasms
supreme. And I shall shout to the false god above, Hecate, thou art the one
that I love.
I love you!!
13. Vampirize Natasha
Look at you, fastened by sheltering blanket. Did you think I'd forget how
sweet you taste, nay my umbrageous heart still yearns for you, and still to
peruse your love is such a waste.
You lie there a vision of immaculate purity, yet your eyes reveal the
insatiable whore and now I'll love sucking your vitality with you, my
pretty. I just want more.
First, I'll tear asunder thy mortal garments, unmasking your pale delicate
flesh, then, I shall ravage your lovebroken body. Sinking my teeth upon
your tender breast.
Violently, I'll fuck your pernicious cunt, while consuming the precious
life-force, thoroughly enjoying the sweet flavor. I'll vampirize you,
Natasha, with no remorse.
Until you shrivel into your casket, I shall continue to vampirize Natashaж
14. Black Funeral
Bring the black box to the altar
Now raise your hands and do the sign
Oh hail Satan, yes hail Satan
Lay down your swords, the evil star
It's a black funeral
She was a victim of my coven
Open the black box on the altar
Her blood is still hot, so let it out
Oh hail Satan, yes hail Satan
Now drink it, drink, drink, forget that whore
It's a black funeral
She was the victim of my coven
15. Morte El Potere